New Flooring

[KevinC]

I did a similar project a couple of years ago. I started with a scraper to remove the carpet, and quickly started looking for another way. It manifested itself in a Harbor Freight ad, and worked like a charm. Turned the job into a couple of hours total, with little effort on my part. I got the carpet out in basically one piece, which I used as a template for building a floating floor with Allure from Home Depot.
I recently moved my photos to icloud because I kept overrunning the dropbox free accounts. I will get a link to all of my pics. It came out quite well, and if I ever change my mind, I can get the new floor up in about 45 seconds.
Here's the magic tool:

I have the same one an love it. Works great in tight spaces.

-Kevin

 

[Boat Guy]

It is called 'Style Selection' from Lowe's. It's 2mm thick and is easy to work with. I liked this product because it was flexible enough to follow the imperfections of the fiberglass floor which were previously hidden by the carpeting. If you use more rigid or 'snap n lock' planks, you have to level, sand, patch and re-epoxy the floor or put a sub floor in, neither of which are practical in my opinion.

Did you put down an underlayment or do you feel the imperfections? If you put down an underlayment what did you use?

 

[CaptainRandall]

No underlayment. You can feel/see some of the imperfections but it doesn't distract from the over all project.

Did you put down an underlayment or do you feel the imperfections? If you put down an underlayment what did you use?